Interesting Bracket Approach

[Henry Sugar]

Year two of the Luke Winn - Harvard College Sports Analysis Collective Survival Bracket

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/-college-basketball-mens-tournament/news/20130319/ncaa-tournament-survival-bracket/

Good news - it predicts #mubb through to the S16

Bad news

Two noteworthy things that did not reach the level of actual bracket picks: Bucknell has the best odds of any double-digit seed of surviving to the Sweet 16 (24.8 percent) or Elite Eight (11.6 percent). And among the 14-15-16 seeds, Davidson has the best odds, by far, of pulling off an upset in its first game (42.7 percent).

[TomW1365]

I got a kick out of reading Rick Reilly's "Filling out a losing NCAA bracket" 
http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/9070175/filling-losing-ncaa-bracket

Here's a few gems as to how to not win:
*Pick against the Jesuits. They have five schools in the dance -- Gonzaga, Saint Louis, Creighton, Marquette, Georgetown -- and none lower than a No. 7 seed. Plus, they're coming off the election of the first Jesuit pope in history.

*Pick one of the saints, Saint Louis or Saint Mary. No team with "Saint" in its name has made the final since St. John's in 1952.

*Go by seeds, not betting lines. This is why you take No. 6 UCLA over No. 11 Minnesota, even though Las Vegas makes the Gophers a two- to three-point favorite.
*Don't work blue. The past nine champions have had some kind of blue in their uniform. Go with purple. No team in purple has ever cut down the nets, thank god. Or stick with that sickly DayGlo green Notre Dame is running around in.

*Put all your cheese on Wisconsin. Those big farm boys play sensible, fundamental, box-out basketball, which means they get run out of the gym when the city kids show up. Only one Wisconsin team has made it past the Elite Eight since the end of World War II, the era of their current haircut style.

[Bieberhole69]

I got a kick out of reading Rick Reilly's "Filling out a losing NCAA bracket" 

Sooooo you're the guy that likes reading Rick Reilly

[TomW1365]

Sooooo you're the guy that likes reading Rick Reilly

So you're the guy who wants to 69 Bieber's hole.   

[Les Nessman]

City Kids would have been a great conference name had we not retained the Big East.

[akmarq]

That network matrix is super sexy.